LAN Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Local Area Network (LAN)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring LAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 65 49
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 +20
Contract jobs citing LAN 7 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.67% 0.17% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.97% 1.47% 17.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £338 - £330
25th Percentile £366 £373 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £401 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £466 £428 £484
90th Percentile £484 - £555
West Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £401 £425
% change year-on-year +20.47% -5.76% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 78 68 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 7.49% 11.58% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 40
10th Percentile £343 £235 £425
25th Percentile £475 £368 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £487 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -11.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £511 £623
90th Percentile £635 £575 £665
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £16.68 - -
25th Percentile £17.68 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £15.03
75th Percentile £21.82 - £17.44
90th Percentile £23.30 - £17.94
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £15.03
% change year-on-year -48.46% +232.67% +11.46%

LAN
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LAN relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

LAN job vacancy trend in Leeds

LAN
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LAN.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LAN

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in Leeds

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LAN.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LAN

LAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) OneDrive
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (28.57%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 2 (28.57%) PSTN
3 2 (28.57%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Data Management
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (28.57%) Observability
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) AI
2 1 (14.29%) B2B
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Presales
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (14.29%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft